Following a series of positive tests within the San Antonio Spurs organization, the Charlotte Hornets, who played the Spurs on Sunday, are undergoing contact tracing and will postpone the next two games on their schedule, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Tuesday morning.
Shortly after Wojnarowski’s report, the NBA officially confirmed that the Spurs’ next three games and the Hornets’ next two games all would be postpone. For Charlotte, those match-ups would have been against Chicago on Wednesday and against Denver on Friday.
The official press release from the NBA:
The San Antonio Spurs’ next three games (Wednesday, Feb. 17 at Cleveland; Saturday, Feb. 20 at New York and Monday, Feb. 22 at Indiana) and the Charlotte Hornets’ next two games (Wednesday, Feb. 17 vs. Chicago and Friday, Feb. 19 vs. Denver) have been postponed in accordance with the NBA’s Health and Safety Protocols.
The games are being postponed due to four Spurs players testing positive and additional contact tracing for players on both San Antonio’s and Charlotte’s rosters, and in order to ensure the health and safety of players on both teams.
The Hornets have been without Caleb Martin, Cody Martin and P.J. Washington due to Health and Safety Protocols since last Friday, Feb. 12. No other player for the Hornets has entered the Health and Safety Protocols since Friday, though no injury report has been released in the wake of the Spurs game.
Charlotte has only had one game postponed this season, a contest with Washington on Jan. 20 that was eventually rescheduled for Feb. 7, thus resulting in the team’s originally scheduled game on Feb. 7 against Portland to be postponed to the second-half of the regular season.